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...Mitsubishi and Mitsui industrial complexes-brought in 62% of the foreign goods purchased by Japan and sold half the nation's exports. Their total sales came to an astounding $76 billion, twice the size of the Japanese national budget. The companies earn their profits on massive turnover despite sliver-thin margins (1.8% last year...
Invented in Czechoslovakia eleven years ago, the object of the excitement is a sliver of porous plastic, slightly larger than a regular contact lens, that becomes soft and pliable when it touches the tears of weak-eyed wearers. Because of its agreeable flabbiness, the soft contact lens can be fitted in one sitting, as compared to four for hard contact lenses. Ophthalmologists generally agree that the soft variety is more comfortable and less likely to become scratched or to pop out unexpectedly than the hard kind. There are some 90 million near-and far-sighted Americans, but only 10 million...
...foreign exchange, but they cannot live there. Instead, they commute to work by boat. Those from distant islands sail across the lagoon in dhow-like craft called buggalows, a trip that can take four hours when the wind is wrong and the current strong. Most come from Fedu, a sliver of an island barely 200 yards to the west, rowing back and forth in small, sailless dhonis...
...surround it. In California, these movements have produced a distinctive, local effect: a 600-mile fissure in the earth called the San Andreas fault, which begins in the Gulf of California, runs through most of the state, and then bends into the Pacific north of San Francisco. Furthermore, the sliver of land west of the fault, which includes Los Angeles, tends to move inexorably to the northwest, at a molasses-like average pace of an inch or so a year. Slow as that movement is, friction between the land masses causes them to stick together, and strains gradually build...
...Thomas H. Moorer describing the situation as deteriorating, though not really critical; later in the story, you say that the Communists "are trying to carve out staging areas in the northeast." Yet your accompanying map shows the Communists in almost total control of the country, with only a tiny sliver around Phnom-Penh in government hands and another relatively small area rated as "disputed." Which is correct...